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...never know what to expect when Karl Rove calls. But when the phone rang for Mary Ann Glendon last summer, Rove, still President Bush's top adviser at the time, had a holy mission for her: Ambassador to the Vatican. Now, having just landed in Rome, she has one of the biggest tasks of that mission already waiting on her desk: coordinating Benedict XVI's first papal visit next month to the United States. "It's a great moment to arrive here," Glendon says of her assignment to the Holy See. "[The trip] will be interesting... Be prepared...
Moving from a Harvard Law School lecture hall to the U.S. Embassy at the Vatican might seem to require a major leap of faith. But Glendon, considered one of the top American Catholic thinkers of her generation, has long been at home along the banks of both the Charles and Tiber rivers. Officially installed on Feb. 29 as the new American Ambassador to the Holy See, she is a longtime Harvard Law professor, author and international expert on human rights and legal theory. But her resume also includes stints as a visiting lecturer at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome...
...Glendon served on President Bush’s Council on Bioethics—a collection of doctors, legal and ethical scholars, and scientists created in 2001 that examines the ethics of human cloning, stem cell research, and other politically-charged medical issues. Glendon was rumored to be a potential Supreme Court nominee after Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement...
...Glendon also has a long-standing relationship with the Vatican. In 1994, she was appointed by Pope John Paul II to lead the newly created Pontifical Academy of Social Science. She headed the Holy See’s delegation to the Fourth U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing in 1995. She is also a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity...
...Glendon received her B.A., J.D., and master of comparative law degrees from the University of Chicago. She lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass. with her husband and three daughters...